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Newspaper
Clare Sentinel
Location
Clare, Michigan, United States of America
Date
Dec 06, 1956
Page
5
Extension club met with Mrs Hilda Scott for a surprise party honoring Mrs Louis Saupe. The group planned crafts and served cake and coffee as Mrs Saupe arrived to shouts of Happy Birthday Vera. A later note mentions a wedding shower for Mr and Mrs Terry Brignér and visits from relatives and hunters at the Elmer McLanes.
Arthur Ganger returns home from a deer hunting trip near Manistique after five days snowbound. A snow plow got into camp but the driver stayed overnight. A fresh storm delayed plowing two hours the next morning, and Ganger and the party followed the plow out. Three hunters, including Ganger, brought bucks home.
The November gathering of the Chatterbox Club met at Mrs Elmer Mclane's home. After dessert and activities, Mrs Delmer Scott led a surprise pink and blue shower for Mrs Way ne Scott with gifts from club members and extra guests Mrs Hilda Scott Mrs Lee McGuire and Ma s Charles Tryon. Plans for a Christmas party were set for a later date.
Mrs. Frank Sowle of Brinton, Mrs. Fred Sowle and Mrs. Lewis Colton traveled to Mt. Pleasant for business on Friday. Mrs. Teddy Deegan and her boys spent the weekend with Mr. and Mrs. James Foote in Grand Rapids.
Lake area residents gather for family visits and extended kinship as relatives from Grand Rapids Midland and Lansing join weekend activities. The note lists numerous households hosting relatives, hunting trips, hospital stays, and a transfer of Leon De Geer from Missouri to Fort Bragg North Carolina awaiting overseas orders.
Friday evening at the Lake School the Ground Observers Corp of Cadillac, led by Set. Baker, presented a film and talk. Plans to trim the Christmas tree were set for December 20, with the December meeting canceled due to a conflict with the school program on December 21. The PTA will reconvene January 18, 1957 with Mrs. Kathryn Streeman as guest speaker. Refreshments were served.
Michigan bees pollinate crops worth about 80 million dollars annually. State Apiarist Don P. Barrett reports record low disease, with only 1.7 percent of 80 555 colonies infected by American foulbrood. Honey and beeswax yield near 2 million dollars, but pollination adds greater indirect value.
State Police report October deaths at 141 down 63 from last year with ten month total 1,246 versus 1,614 a year earlier. November provisional 125 versus 208 last year, final saving estimated at 50 lives, total 238 so far. 185,298 traffic arrests in ten months.
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